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Lucy attempts to solve post-Razmir Ustalav
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"You are offering to resurrect people?" he says, with some disbelief.

"... You claim you closed the Worldwound?"

He's gonna send a messenger to go talk to his boss about this, since his boss is the one with a permanent Telepathic Bond to Remek Czaszar.

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"I mean, to be fully honest, 'offering' seems like it implies that I'd definitely take no for an answer? Like, vampires kill people. Not that the one vampire I've met so far wanted to stay that way, but if one did." 

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"You mean to resurrect every vampire in Ustalav, regardless of their wishes?"

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"We~ell...this planet has enough problems that individual holdouts proooobably aren't the most important thing I could be doing? Like, I kept the glow low enough to not penetrate buildings so I wouldn't resurrect people who had already turned into Outsiders, at some point I'm going to want to collect a bunch of corpses and use Speak With Dead to check what's up with 'em, sort them into resurrectable and non-."

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... Yep.

"What are you?" (With more than a little horror.)

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“I’m from another planet!”

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Might be an aberration, not an outsider.

(A couple more guards file in. These include a wizard.)

"We can provide you with people who desire to be resurrected."

(There are people who deserted. There are a lot of people who deserted. There are not, however, enough, and not organized enough, that Ardis isn't held by loyalists, barring some regions of the city presently being suppressed that she did not land in.)

"... From where do your powers come?"

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Count Tiriac is becoming increasingly worried about the "surrounded" thing! Not particularly, really, Geb and Arazni were not sufficient to kill her, and she already brought him back once. But some of these people might end up falling out windows in the very near future.

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“I’m part star and part space crab.”

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That DOES NOT HELP.

"... And what do you desire of us?"

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"If I say, 'I really relate to Sarenrae,' are you going to find that usefully informative?"

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Not... really. She hates undead? He's actually from the continent that is at the opposite end of the planet from the center of Sarenrae's faith and most of his fellow soldiers spit or make warding signs when her name comes up.

"No. Any political opinions?"

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"People should get to be okay and exist and stuff. Is that a political opinion?"

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"No," he says drily, "political opinions are more 'the entire nobility and priesthood needs to die as exploiters of the people' or 'Taldor should rightfully reconquer all of Avistan'."

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"I don't have enough local context to have any of those. Uh, I generally don't think people need to die? I don't think Hell should get to keep ruling Cheliax?" She turns to Count Tiriac. "Are there any local political opinions as obvious as 'Hell should not get to keep Cheliax' that I'm missing because people only mentioned the Cheliax situation in front of me?" 

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"Nidal, Miss Whitman. Zon-Kuthon should not get to keep Nidal."

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"I don't think I knew Zon-Kuthon had Nidal but I agree that he should stop!"

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This information is, of course, being passed by Message from the wizard in the room to a wizard outside the room, who passes it by Message to his superior, who has a telepathic bond with Wielki Ksiaze/Remek Czaszar/Taldaris II, whose feverish work on his own Clone and on his return to lichdom (and on his purchase of resurrection insurance from the Church of Abadar) can, in fact, be interrupted by the person responsible for undoing all of his plans and possibly even foiling his conquest of Ustalav returning in person.

Wielki Ksaize is not so much of a fool as most wizards. He knows the importance of Wisdom and of patience and of clever schemes. And he also knows that there are going to be a great many people attempting to kill this powerful outsider, and as many protecting her.

And yet, nonetheless, she just tried to foil his conquest of Ustalav.

He passes a message on.

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"What happened in Geb?" he asks.

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“I rescued Arazni and Geb got mad about it.”

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"... Is Geb still alive?"

(He does not know who Geb is but he knows this is a very important question to ask because his boss says so.)

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“Yeah, he got away, I’m not used to fighting teleporting enemies yet.”

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Then either her life expectancy will measure in hours, or she is far, far beyond his power to kill.

Still, one more question.

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"What are your next priorities, in Ustalav or outside of it?"

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“Resurrecting vampires, keep up.”

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